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6407. An encyclopaedia of domestic economy: comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping: as, the construction of domestic edifices, with the modes of warming, ventilating, and lighting them; a description of the various articles of furniture, with the nature of their materials; duties of servants; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food, and the methods of preserving and preparing them by cooking; making bread; the chemical nature and the preparation of all kinds of fermented liquors used as beverage; materials employed in dress and the toilette; business of the laundry; description of the various wheel-carriages; preservation of health; domestic medicine, &c,&c.

Creator:
Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

6420. The book of the feet: a history of boots and shoes, with illustrations of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style througout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period : also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc.

Creator:
Hall, Joseph Sparkes.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Cornell University, Mann Library
Publication Place:
Ithaca, New York
Format:
Book

6427. A dictionary of diet: being a practical treatise on all pabulary and nutritive substances, solid and fluid with their compounds, used as food; including the observations of eminent philosophers, physicians, gastronomers, and other industrious inquirers into the true science of eating, drinking and preserving health, through the medium of well regulated and easily digestible food, founded on the known specific properties of all kinds of human ailment : with the means of prevention and cure of the diseases resulting from a deranged condition of the organs of digestion, etc., etc.

Creator:
Forsyth, J. S.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
John Churchill,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book